SKTfM Teaching Assistants during Covid-19 (online)
This Work Group is designed to enhance and deepen maths subject knowledge and pedagogy for teaching assistants. Increased confidence in their own subject knowledge, and enhanced awareness of how children gain number sense and learn mathematics will allow TAs to better support children in the classroom and during small group or individual intervention.
Who is this for?
Teaching assistants from Primary, currently seeking professional development that they can take part in online.
What is involved?
Participants can access five or six online sessions, which will comprise a mix of subject knowledge, pedagogy and practice.
Intended Outcomes:
To develop participants’ knowledge about mathematics and the teaching of mathematics, including developing:
Improved skills and confidence in supporting pupils in a mastery curriculum.
Knowledge of the pedagogy of maths teaching and ways of relating this to small group teaching.
Understanding how children think and where their misconceptions stem from
A greater awareness of the three aims of the National Curriculum (fluency, reasoning and problem solving) and understanding how these aims relate specifically to the teaching of calculation and arithmetic proficiency.
Understanding the role that certain representations, models and manipulatives can play in the development of pupils’ understanding of number and calculation.
Understanding the interplay between conceptual understanding and procedural fluency and how each contribute to the achievement of mastery of the curriculum.